Writers, publishers, structurers and structured analysts, NY FinTech members, family and friends of R&R, are all welcome to join us at Williams Club on 2/22 from 6-8 PM. Cash bar and DJ-ing by R&R’s own, very talented head of risk management, David Abitbol, aka, Japanster!
An article in the current issue of Corporate Board Member quotes R&R Consulting principals Sylvain Raynes and Ann Rutledge on the effects new corporate strategies can have on credit ratings. Read the full article by Sharon Kahn, “Why Risking a Lower Credit Rating Can Make Good Strategic Sense.”
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes is quoted in a McClatchy News article on the bonus awarded to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Read the full article by Greg Gordon, “Goldman’s Chief Gets Bonus of $9 Million in Stock,” in McClatchy Newspapers, February 5, 2010.
At R&R Consulting, we’re known for the diversity of our talent. But who knew R&R’s head of risk management was a famous downtown DJ? Read the interview in Manhattan Magazine, and watch this page for an opportunity to experience David’s magic first-hand at an R&R-hosted event in February.
R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes is quoted in a McClatchy Newspapers report revealing further details of the Fed’s controversial bailout of AIG. The January 7 report says that in the weeks before Timothy Geithner’s confirmation as treasury secretary, his underlings at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York directed American International Group (AIG) to delay […]
R&R Consulting’s Sylvain Raynes comments on the “cynical” use of credit information by Goldman Sachs in “Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won,” by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story in The New York Times, December 24, 2009. Sylvain Raynes joins Louise Story for a follow-up podcast at The Takeaway: “How Banks Bet Against the […]
A common diagnosis of the housing debacle is that lenders lacked “skin in the game,” and so made loans without regard to risk. A proposed overhaul of financial regulation being debated in Congress would require securitizers of mortgages to keep, at minimum, between 5% and 10% interest in the pools. The bigger question is whether […]
R&R Consulting’s Ann Rutledge notes that the financial crisis has demonstrated the need for new fraud risk models to facilitate sound economic decisions within the capitalist framework. Paradoxically, while improper use of securitization brought on the financial crisis, properly implemented securitization models could help revive the economy by recycling capital more efficiently and transparently. Read “The […]
Raynes Comments Further on Goldman’s Conflict of Interest
Following a recent New York Times story in which R&R Consulting’s Sylvain Raynes criticized Goldman’s CDO arrangements on mortgage-backed securities, McClatchy Newspapers have published their own expose on the details of one revealing Goldman deal. Commenting on this transaction, Raynes says it was tainted by “a potentially huge conflict of interest” that “cannot be addressed […]